And when we vote in 2010, we’ll show the left a lot of middle finger length. :-)
Well, with regards to social behaviour - not sure I want to hang around with a guy who’s pinky finger is longer than his middle finger!
What is the significance?
Isn’t there something about lesbos and their 2nd and 4th finger length?
I gotcher finger right here.
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whenever you see the word “suggest” in a research report, as in “which suggests that exposure to a lot of androgens before birth could be linked to the expression of this behaviour” then you KNOW the science is weak.
They are drawing conclusions (or forming hypotheses and expressing them as ‘facts’) based on correlation, not causation.
For example, in old Irish fishing villages there is a nearly one to one correlation between seagull population and human conception/pregnancies. Meaning that whenever the local seagull population went up markedly and sharply, human pregnancies increased. “Scientists” studying the matter same the data suggest that exposure to dense seagull populations could affect human fertility.
The truth is that in old Irish fishing villages, the local seagull populations followed the fishing vessels into port in order to eat the discards from the returning ships. When the young men docked and returned home (along with the flocks of seagulls) human nature *CAUSED* an uptick in pregnancies.
Correlation vs. causation.
Indeed finger length may be an indication of exposure to various levels of androgens, but the causal relationship to sexual behaviour or ‘orientation’ cannot be demonstrated easily from this research.
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Thanks JoeProBono. No ping, I think this is actually a duplicate. (!) |
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